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@wylfcen Erm ackshully the most common word to refer to fox in Scots is ‘tod’. ‘fox’ does exist but was considered archaic and only really appeared in compounds (eg. ‘foxfit’ - ‘buttercup’) until recent English influence 🤓☝️

@ianwoodaudio @grahamscheper @colingorrie The differences between Early Scots (c. 15th century) and Modern Scots are a lot less stark than between Old and Modern English but that’s to be expected since you’re only looking at 600 years of difference vs 1600. This is a line from Stewart’s Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland!

@grahamscheper @colingorrie I think it's easier if you grew up speaking Scots. How much has Scots changed since the two languages diverged, compared to how much Old, Middle and Modern English differ?

Can you understand ACTUALLY SPOKEN Old English?? Here are a few snippets from my conversation with @colingorrie , the first recorded conversation between two advanced OE speakers in over 800 years! Check out the whole episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6hoK…

@BEALFEIRSTE1888 @NewtonEmerson Gin Scots grammar daumers ye there's a rowth ae Scots Grammars ye can tak a wale by 📕📗📘

@NewtonEmerson Everyone who was born in Ireland will used a bit of ulster scots slang/mis pronounced english words. Its in every day speech. To say its a language with verbs , adjectives , general grammar. Can you real write down. Is there a dictionary of ulster scotch. Its a dialect .

There is an Ulster Scots culture to celebrate. There is a role for the Ulster Scots commissioner, even if it's more through the 'Ulster British Tradition' part of his title. But Ulster Scots is a dialect at most. irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/1…

Skeptical appraisals of Ulster Scots from unionist perspectives are usually some variant of "grrr noooo stop it this doesn't help political unionism!!!" and the idea that you might want to do language stuff because you like languages and think they're cool doesn't seem to occur😅

@MissTwice I really wanted to get mad about this and do some sort of EPIC REBUTTAL™️ but once you get past the inflammatory title the rest of the article is just tepid political yammering 😴😴 I've been successfully ragebaited!!!

1) Ulster Scots is a language; it is a dialect of Scots, not English. 2) It is accepted as a recognised minority language per the CoE’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. 3) “Ulster British Tradition” has no recognition under intl human rights law.

@annie_mcginley @NewtonEmerson I don't think that's a massively unusual practice when it comes to language revitilization. Tomás de Bhaldraithe pretty liberally plucked from local dialect word lists when he was putting together his Irish dictionary for example, and now those words are used all over Ireland.

@NewtonEmerson I found Lee suggesting that they just gather up words from different areas, change the spellings to suit and then present it as an academic subject slightly worrying. It should be treasured but not reinvented. The fact Lee himself doesn't speak it is also an issue.

Late medieval Irish Parliaments be like:

If - for some reason - you wanted to get super annoyed, you should read some negative reviews for Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet' on GoodReads, which are almost all complaints about it being written in Scots. #CommunityReviews" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">goodreads.com/book/show/7755…

The Scottish Languages Bill (2025) has PASSED. Scots is now an official language of Scotland, alongside and equal to Gaelic and English. A huge thanks to every activist, supporter and speaker who have fought so hard 🎉🥳🍾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Scottish Languages Bill haes been passed unanimously! The first time Scots haes been recognised in Scots law! Weil duin tae awbody involved 🤝👏👏👏👏

@Lenniesaurus Congratulations! Very well deserved 👏

Head of the Ulster-Scots Agency bemoaning that Ulster Scots is in "an underdeveloped position" and that there is "a lack of provision for learning the language" If only there was someone in a position of authority to do something about that!!!! 🤔🤔🤔

I disagree with this position, and the approach to the role of the Commissioner essentially being proposed here.

@SeawrightDaniel I think this one is at least marginally better than the last census translation! Marginally. 😐

I know it's tough to translate officialese into Ulster-Scots, and I don't envy anyone trying to do it. But that translation of the advert for the Ulster British Commissioner published by the Executive is a complete mess.

@MissTwice I'd really love to the pick the brain of the person/people who does these and see if they're aware of the kind of reaction they garner both from the general public and Ullans speakers 😅

@Ultach1014 When I saw this yesterday, when I say my heart sank at the apostrophes

>apologetic apostrophes >weirdly informal tone >spelling English words phonetically instead of using Scots ones >using Scots words incorrectly >'tradeeeeeeeeeeetion', 'poleeeeeeeeeetical' Yep, it's Official Ulster Scots™️ time again

@Lenniesaurus FOUR 👏 MORE 👏 YEARS 👏

“Nothing brings me joy like Scots” Watch Len Pennie's Poyums of Power on @bbciplayer - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@Lenniesaurus I don't want to oversell it but this is potentially the most important thing to ever happen in Scotland ever